graevy

i feel like it will just result in discriminatory policing

i think a large part of this that often goes unstated is the suburban sprawl that causes people to need to drive longer distances near pedestrians to begin with -- do you live in an area with wide streets, many single-family homes, and parking lots? when i've lived in city neighborhoods with dense housing i've only had to drive far/fast to leave, and when i've lived in the middle of nowhere i wasn't at risk of flattening pedestrians

Hate to nit, but there is actually a seventh gnossienne. Satie didn't publish 4-6, or even label them "gnossiennes", whereas the seventh was explicitly referred to as a gnossienne by Satie.

diminishing to negative marginal returns to wealth past ~80k salary

(famous economic study)

h-bombs do both

upscayl is very approachable, but lacked many features i needed. i ended up using https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui after upscaling became part of my regular workflow, but for someone who just needs a few images enhanced, it's an ideal tool.

"More precisely, I will come to the following conclusion. Whenever the rate of return on capital is significantly and durably higher than the growth rate of the economy, it is all but inevitable that inheritance (of fortunes accumulated in the past) predominates over saving (wealth accumulated in the present). In strict logic, it could be otherwise, but the forces pushing in this direction are extremely powerful. The inequality r > g in one sense implies that the past tends to devour the future: wealth originating in the past automatically grows more rapidly, even without labor, than wealth stemming from work, which can be saved. Almost inevitably, this tends to give lasting, disproportionate importance to inequalities created in the past, and therefore to inheritance." (20.3)

"The inequality r > g implies that wealth accumulated in the past grows more rapidly than output and wages. This inequality expresses a fundamental logical contradiction. The entrepreneur inevitably tends to become a rentier, more and more dominant over those who own nothing but their labor. Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future." (27.6)

- Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century

Not really. LLMs are good if you account for hallucination.

a virtual commodities market isn't socialism. they haven't even collectivized the bots, let alone the currency

The open-source community loves recommending ubuntu to people who don't know how to access a boot menu; the dissemination of debloating tools like tronscript or bloatynosy is the best practical way to combat these antifeatures.

your source, some guy on twitter from the "american enterprise institute" marketing his book "the american dream is not dead", is cherrypicking from the low to high points of the business cycle:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

from a dataset which actually tracks data outside that range:

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-11/58353-HouseholdInco...

a more robust dataset, which you would get by simply searching "US real median household income" and opening the first result citing census data, indicates that, charitably, real median household income has risen about 25% since 1980:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=bOeD

wikipedia's article, which has thoroughly succumbed to link rot, in addition to citing the above data, also provides historical census data neatly summarized on page 5 of this census report pegging an increase at about 15-20% since 1964:

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

this took me 3 minutes

the article that you linked is trying to debug the US life expectancy claim. i specifically wrote "international". your own article cites a (quite thorough! better than i found on short notice) analysis in latin america estimating the number between 30-35 as its 772nd citation...

> But, if that’s true, why would men demote themselves to womanhood? For reasons of sexual fetishism, says Jeffreys

i just looked up some stats on trans death. it was hard to get a good international life expectancy source; most seem to peg it at about 32-40, or half the general population's. i did definitively find that 2 in 5 living american trans people self-report attempted suicide. must be quite the fetish, Sheila.

the paradox of tolerance: tolerating bigotry replaces your alienated userbase with bigots until it stops couching itself in virtuous newyorker articles.